This concise article furnishes a status update regarding the current support for OpenBSD on the HONOR MagicBook Art 14 Snapdragon.
Current OpenBSD Support Summary
The HONOR MagicBook Art 14 Snapdragon is a system-on-a-chip that is based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon platform. It is imperative to note that the utilized firmware should be signed by a vendor for designated devices. Typically, this firmware can be obtained via the Windows Update channel or the HONOR website.
| Component | Works? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 3D aceleration | No | No driver, support quite unlikley |
| Audio | No | No driver |
| Battery status | Yes | Not each boot |
| Bluetooth | No | |
| Fingerprint sensor | No | Shows up as a ugen device, no driver |
| Keyboard backlight | No | |
| Power management | No | |
| SSD | Yes | |
| Touchpad | Yes | Multitouch doesn’t work each boot |
| Touchscreen | Yes | Not each boot |
| USB | Yes | One port doesn’t work each boot for data |
| Webcam | Yes | |
| Wireless | No | Driver in progress |
| ZZZ / Hibernation | No | |
| zzz / Suspend | No |
The dmesg from OpenBSD 7.7-beta.
Other Systems
It was observed that Fedora 41 and 42 beta 1 (release date Tuesday, March 18, 2025), Ubuntu 24.10 and Ubuntu Concept (image
oracular-desktop-arm64+x1e-20250228.iso), FreeBSD 14.2 were unable to
successfully boot on the machine.
The relevant issue in the Ubuntu-Concept project: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-concept/+bug/2092406
Thus, created devicetree was sent to Linux Kernel upstream: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-devicetree/87jzazzx17.wl-kirill@korins.ky/